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asked to pose for nude pics while volunteering
- Subject: asked to pose for nude pics while volunteering
- From: Anonymous <no_email@fake.address>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:33:31 -0400 (EDT)
When I as 17, I was a Red Cross volunteer at a nearby military base. I had two posts, and twice a week I reported to Nursing Staff Development. The Officer in charge was a well-liked guy, know byhis last name, and always entered the room with people cheering (like "Norm" from CHEERS.)
One afternoon, he asked me to go to lunch at a nearby fast-food joint where "everyone else from the hospitol went." Having a completely innocent mind, and fearing nothing, I agreed.
He took me to the nearest Burger King, and NOBODY from the hospitol was there. He had lied, and now I was alone. He had driven us there, and it was too far to walk back.
After ordering, I sat down, and he sat across from me. He began to tell me about how he liked to take photographs. This led to asking me if I had ever posed for pictures. Of course, I did not answer him. Next, he spoke of how some of his pictures had made it to the pages of Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse and worse. I said nothing.
That night, I told my mother. The next day, I told my supervisor (who was a friend of mine two years ahead of me in high school.) Both my mother and friend/supervisor said (without conferring with one another) that if I were to press charges, nothing would happen. He was two months from retiring, and would never accept a demotion without a fight. And I did go with him. And it is my word ( a relative unknown in the hospitol) against his (The "Norm" of the Nursing office.)
That very same day, I left his office, but still volunteered in my other post. He may have gotten away with it, but I ddn't let him scare me away from my volunteer work.
I still saw him in the hallways. The first time he grabbed my arm, but I pulled away, looked him in the eye and said "NO." I always held my head up high.
But, I also learned that my children will never experience that and not press charges. If I could go back, I would look further into pressing charges, or at least putting his conduct on public record in the hospitol, but I didn't, I can live with that , and I have learned from that.
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